So long AOL, Hellooooo High SPEED

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So long AOL, Hellooooo High SPEED

So its happened!!!! The comcast high speed is officially up and running in my dads house, now over the next two mornings (i work after 10 oclock) i am going to run some cat 5 up here and ill be all set.

Congratulations. In my little town we have to share an ISDN connection between 3 or 4 computers, so it sucks. Let's see if the government gives us the stellite, although it's not very likely.
And congrats on your departure from AOL.

Originally posted by -=SoKrA=- Congratulations. In my little town we have to share an ISDN connection between 3 or 4 computers, so it sucks. Let's see if the government gives us the stellite, although it's not very likely.
And congrats on your departure from AOL.

See if the government gives you satellite? Are you serious? What country do you live in?

edit: if your title is correct... I guess you're from Spain. Do they not allow you to have satellite internet over there?

Originally posted by ober See if the government gives you satellite? Are you serious? What country do you live in?

edit: if your title is correct... I guess you're from Spain. Do they not allow you to have satellite internet over there?

OK, maybe it wasn't the best way of explaining it.
I live in a very small town (~300 people, most old farmers) and so the phone company won't enable the phone exchange for broadband because it doesn't see any chance for profit. No other phone company will either for the same reason, plus, Telefonica used to be government-owend (and monopoly untill not so long ago) and it owns all phone lines in Spain except in really big cities.
So, some government organization is going to apply for money from Europe so they can give us satellite internet cheap, as there's no other option. And that's what I meant by `giving us satellite'.
And I say it's unlikely because they're asking for 7 million euros just hold a contest to choose a provider.
The other option would be getting it through the power lines, but they were talking about that 4 years ago, so I doubt it'll ever get here.
The best part is that the government had a plan for having all of spain covered with broadband by 2002. Guess how well that is going.